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venexiano
Explorer | Level 4
2 months ago

How to safely remove shared folder from hard drive, owned by a student who graduated and left?

I am a professor at University of Florida (I need to use my personal email here, it never worked with UF email). All my graduate students and I all use Dropbox. Each student has a project folder shar...
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Jay
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2 months ago

Hi venexiano, thanks for contacting us!

Regarding the details, you've provided, I need more information since there are a lot of details here. 

Just for clarification, are you looking to only remove the local shared folder from the computer? Is it associated with the same Dropbox account as before, or would it be under a different Dropbox account?

This will help me to assist further!

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